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USAID, RBL Bank Partner to Expand Off-Grid, Rooftop Solar in India

USAID, RBL Bank Partner to Expand Off-Grid, Rooftop Solar in India

The $75 million USAID loan guarantee will significantly enhance RBL's ability to extend loans to Indian SMBs installing off-grid and rooftop solar energy systems in poorly served ...

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Postcard From the Future?  Ta’u Island Ditches Diesel With Tesla-SolarCity Microgrid

Postcard From the Future? Ta’u Island Ditches Diesel With Tesla-SolarCity Microgrid

In 'Before The Flood,' Elon Musk tells Leonardo DiCaprio that just 100 Gigafactories would be enough to move the entire world to sustainable energy.  While critics scoffed, Tesla ...

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A Solar-Storage Microgrid for Great Smoky Mountains National Park

A Solar-Storage Microgrid for Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Small in size at 10-kW of solar power and 95-kWh of zinc-iron battery energy storage, the proposed project nonetheless highlights the leading role the National Park Service and ...

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Solar Microgrid Helps Save Lives, Brighten Prospects in Rural Myanmar

Solar Microgrid Helps Save Lives, Brighten Prospects in Rural Myanmar

A community solar-energy storage is delivering emissions-free electricity throughout a village in Myanmar's central Dry Zone, enabling health clinic staff to store anti-venom and ...

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Haiti Microgrid Developer Wakes Up To Daunting New Role In Wake Of Hurricane Matthew

Haiti Microgrid Developer Wakes Up To Daunting New Role In Wake Of Hurricane Matthew

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, Sigora was on hand to support emergency relief efforts. Now the clean energy microutility is raising $96k and leveraging its ...

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Off-Grid Solar Industry Investments Rise 15-Fold, Total $276 Million in 2015

Off-Grid Solar Industry Investments Rise 15-Fold, Total $276 Million in 2015

Two market research reports from the World Bank Group's Global Lighting Program and GOGLA reveal growing use of off-grid solar energy and associated solar products and the ...

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Off-Grid Renewable Energy Bringing Universal Electricity Access to Africa

Off-Grid Renewable Energy Bringing Universal Electricity Access to Africa

Widely available and cheaper than ever, PV solar is spreading rapidly across sub-Saharan Africa as a first generation of local clean energy entrepreneurs taps into support from ...

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Watch This Fishing Village In Haiti Get Transformed by A Solar Microgrid

Watch This Fishing Village In Haiti Get Transformed by A Solar Microgrid

Sigora Solar recently completed a solar powered microgrid in Mole Saint Nicolas, Haiti - a remote fishing village seven hours by truck from Port Au Prince.  Sigora is a for-profit ...

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These Companies Can Deploy A Mobile Microgrid in Days

These Companies Can Deploy A Mobile Microgrid in Days

An underappreciated aspect of decentralized renewable energy is the speed at which an entire mobile microgrid can be deployed and communities can be transformed by clean energy. ...

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Off-grid: When hybrid plus storage makes sense

Off-grid: When hybrid plus storage makes sense

Reducing the reliance on costly diesel-based power generation is high on the list of priorities for off-grid operators around the world. PV-hybrid systems alone can only go so far ...

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